Avon and Somerset Constabulary

• Features / Institutional Racism

  Norman Pascal on institutional racism, role models and the journey so far

  Reflections 20 years on from the Macpherson report

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• News / police and crime commissioner

  100 new police officers for Bristol region

  It's part of a massive crackdown on burglary, drugs and knife crime

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• News / Housing

  ‘We just want to feel safe again’

  Fires in St Jude's tower blocks spark fears

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• News / Crime

  Bristol’s mayor and deputy receive racist death threats

  'We will not be silenced by people whose sole purpose is to peddle fear’

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• News / Avon and Somerset Constabulary

  Detective with previously unblemished record sacked for giving false evidence in court

  'There is no role for an officer who has breached the standards of honesty and integrity'

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• News / Avon and Somerset Constabulary

  Detective who gave false evidence in court ’embarrassed by muddled response’

  The hearing heard DS Eckland had an 'unblemished' career but that he 'fluffed his lines'

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• News / Avon and Somerset Constabulary

  ‘New technology will help get more police officers back on beat’

  Avon and Somerset Police has spent £12m on laptops and mobile phones

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• News / Crime

  Victim of fatal Fishponds stabbing named

  Police have launched a murder inquiry following the death of Ronald Leigh, 21

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